Japan's prime minister wins landslide election victory

日本首相赢得压倒性选举胜利

Global News Podcast

2026-02-09

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Japan's prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, has led her party to a decisive election victory. Her Liberal Democratic Party won more than two thirds of the seats in the lower house of parliament. It gives Ms Takaichi wide scope to push through her conservative agenda. She's promised to boost defence spending, tighten immigration and revise Japan's pacifist constitution. Also: Thailand's incumbent prime minister has claimed victory, after early vote counts gave him a big lead in the country's general election. The Hong Kong media tycoon and pro-democracy campaigner, Jimmy Lai, has been sentenced to twenty years in prison under the territory's strict national security law, which China says is necessary for stability. The man convicted of shooting dead fifty one people at two mosques in New Zealand seven years ago has begun an appeal against his conviction and sentence. The Seattle Seahawks have won the Super Bowl -- the biggest prize in American football.
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  • Japan's Prime Minister has won a decisive parliamentary majority,

  • increasing the chance she'll now change the country's constitution.

  • The pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lye has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

  • And the Seattle Seahawks win the US Super Bowl,

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